The House that Streetknit Built

Well, by now you’ve probably heard about the house that we put together at City of Craft. I say “we” but really the whole thing was Ryan’s brainchild and he did the majority of the work on it. Including spending 9 hours last Saturday at City of Craft putting it all together! For those of you who didn’t make it down, here are some photos. Look carefully, you may see something you made!

It started with some yarn:

Then, there was a wall (with it’s maker):

And a window was soon added (also made by Kate, the wall maker):

Then we got to City of Craft and the fun began!

Ryan, starting to work on the house:

Coming together:

Hey, it looks like a house!:

The finished house!

And from the other side.

Doesn’t it look cozy? If only it were this easy to make homes for people! After the show, the house was taken apart and all items were bagged up. I’ll be dropping them off at Windfall clothing sometime this week.

Thanks to everyone who helped with house – it looked great and we got some great publicity for Streetknit (the Star even sent someone to check it out – read the article).

And thanks to this woman, whose name I never did find out. She arrived at the fair, thought we were doing a cool thing, pulled out her crochet needle and got to work!

You guys are the greatest!

Comments

Sally Karamath wrote:

Great job Sadie!! If more people feels the same as you, the world will be a better one. The group will be knitting all winter to help out. I read the article and thought it was amazing. So keep up the good work!

Wow, what a fantastic idea – to knit a shelter! I really wish the photos were still here; I’d love to see how it worked out. I’m a web dev, so if you’ve simply moved hosts and still have the pics, let me know – maybe I can volunteer a touch of developer magic without too much effort?